Introducing FFA Insider

We at Fantasy Football Analytics are excited to introduce FFA Insider, a new paid service that we are officially launching at the start of this season. We are committed to keeping many of the articles and content that you’ve enjoyed in previous seasons free, and at the same time we’re looking to cover our server costs, create more premium tools, and improve your overall experience with the site (e.g., increasing server capacity to increase the stability of our tools).

What You Get

Beginning today, you will be able to able to sign up and use our improved WebApps to optimize lineups at daily sites including our partners FanDuel and DraftKings, as well as improve performance in your season-long leagues.

A $4.99 monthly subscription will grant you access to all tools on FFA Insider and you can cancel at any time (no refunds accepted for previous months).

You will need a subscription to use our Lineup Optimizer tool for DFS leagues and weekly lineups. For info how to use the Lineup Optimizer for DFS leagues, see here. A FFA Insider subscription will also give you the ability to save unlimited custom settings.

As a part of your monthly subscription, you will be given given access to deeper insights and highly customizable rankings tailored to daily salaries and be at the forefront as we look to add new content and functionality. FFA Insider is a year-round service to give you access to these tools throughout the year, including the offseason, so you can continue to prepare for next season using our rich historical data (dating back to 2008).

Signing Up

To sign up for FFA Insider, head over to our webapps. Click the “Sign In” button (top right), and then create a new account under the tab “Create a Free Account”. After creating a new account, click the “Subscribe” button (top right), and enter your payment information.

We are able to accept all major credit cards directly and securely through Stripe using our WebApps (we don’t obtain or hold on to any credit card information). If you would like to pay by PayPal or inquire about other payment options please contact [email protected]

Canceling

To cancel, just click the “Cancel Subscription” button under “My Account” in the app, and you won’t be billed for the following month. Let us know if you have difficulty canceling ([email protected]).

Thank You

We appreciate the support of the Fantasy Football Analytics community as we continue to build and refine our tools and analyses to help people improve their performance in fantasy football with advanced analytics. To get started, contact [email protected]

Troubleshooting

If you are getting an error when using the webapps, please see here. If you are having trouble getting the webapps to load, please see here. If you are having trouble logging in to use the webapps, please see here. If you are unable to resolve after completing the steps in the FAQ, please contact us at [email protected] with the information requested in the FAQ.

Thanks for reading! The premium account will allow you to use our Lineup Optimizer tool for setting lineups to DFS leagues as well as helping pick the highest scoring line-up for any given week in a seasonal league. We will be posting another article detailing this new tool as soon as we have weekly data available.

I was excited to purchase a subscription for this until the lineup optimizer died three picks into my auction last night! No matter the browser or number of reloads kept getting “unexpected error occurred while loading data”. Thankfully I did have some back up plans to fall back to, but was very disappointed. I hadn’t had a single issue through mock auctions until my actual paid auction came along 🙁

Sean, we apologize sincerely for the inconvenience. Our current server is having some difficulty handling traffic during peak hours. As we mentioned, it’s one of the main issues we’re looking to use subscription proceeds to correct. We recommend downloading our projections to use as a back up for live drafts.

I assumed that this had been the issue. I had downloaded the projections and that was part of the back up plans I fell back to. Unfortunately there is reasonable replacement option for using the lineup optimizer to highlight which players to target during an auction, and this is where you find the best value from your products. If you’re unable to handle peak hours and money leagues are really only drafting at peak hours it leaves next year as the earliest point I can hope to use it. Too much interest in a product is a great issue to have, until it makes the product unusable during a very limited window such as FF draft season. Hopefully you will find great success with daily leagues, but I am not a fan of them.

There are 2 things I geek out about, Sports and Computer science. What you guys are doing is awesome and it right up my alley. Would love to subscribe but my CS side is asking How do I know the payment is secure?

Thank you for the kind words. We use Stripe to process payments so we don’t hold on to any of your information. You can read more about their security measures here: https://stripe.com/docs/security/stripe. Please let us know if you have any other questions.

First, wanted to say thank you for a great service; I’ve used your tools with great success for the past two years and just purchased an insider subscription. I have a question: I’m trying to sort for week 1 projections but as of now, I can only set the projections and lineup optimizer at “full season” am I missing something obvious or do I need to pull the raw data and scrub it myself? Thanks!

My league is debating whether or not we should re-instate the IDP position. I basically lobbied to have it removed last season since I felt like it was too difficult to predict, too much boom/bust and just generally felt like a very random source of points that only decreased the amount of skill in the game.

Have you done any analysis of IDP positions (DL, DB, LB) to determine whether there is any truth to this sentiment? I believe it is a common critique of the IDP position but I can’t find a statistical analysis to back it up. I know you’ve done analysis on weekly variability of different stat categories, wonder if you could do the same with sacks, tackles, interceptions, forced fumbles etc?

For weekly projections, it would really help to have FanDuel / DK salary info populated, since at this point AAV, ADP is useless when we are looking at scoring settings for DFS. Or, make the tables in the lineup optimizer downloadable.

I was meaning for projections. I like to download the spreadsheets and do my own sorting. However, projections doesn’t have salary. The lineup optimizer does, but doesn’t allow you to download the full list.

1) Can I somehow save my league scoring settings vs. having to reenter them every time I want to get projections?

2) What is the best method to see who to start per week per your aggregated projections? Can I somehow ‘save a roster’ so that it essentially racks and stacks for me? Or do I have to compare all the players manually?

3) There is a modifier for points allowed for DST, but what about yards allowed?

Ditto for me. I love the tool but I play in multiple leagues, all with different scoring settings, so having to enter each of them manually multiple times a week is a chore. I’m on the fence about signing up for the paid service, that feature would definitely convince me!

I used your projections for the 2016 Season for my draft and it was fantastic! I was just wondering if you were planning on expanding on the sources you gather for you weekly projections. I noticed there were only 4 compared to the 8 you used for the full season projections.

Yea, our league was a snake draft. Will it still work? Also, can you lead me through what exactly I should do with my browser to allow for the projections and lineup app to work? Thank you so much and I plan on showing this to the rest of my team

Is there a way to exclude teams (or match ups) for the optimizer tool. On the daily site (eg Draft Kings), they have afternoon only, primetime etc. and it would be extremely helpful to have ability to screen out players that are not in those time slots. Thanks. Great work!

I really enjoy your projections and very much enjoy using it as a tool in my research. As a suggestion, perhaps you can set it up to automatically pull at a certain time each day so it is updated daily and reflects injury news more accurately. For instance, it is 10/1, but the last update shows 9/29. The little injury news is helpful especially for finding value and the injury reports come out on Friday. In the http://fantasyfootballanalytics.net/about-the-site/faq#weeklyWhen link, it suggests that you update daily.

Good morning — when I am trying to find an optimal Fan Duel Lineup for the week, I am setting the parameters, it runs through the calculations, but the lineup comes up blank — any help would be appreciated

I am interested in your site and subscribing, however I was wondering if you can share any data in terms of how effective your optimal lineups have been in terms of actually winning or having top scores? There are tons of sites out there asking for money, just want to be sure I spend my money where it is most beneficial. Thank you.

the free account issue seems to be happening for 6 days now… Thank you for the communication that you are aware of the situation and are working towards a resolution. Is there an ETA on that resolution?

I’m a big fan of your website. Your application of traditional statistic principles to fantasy football seems really unique. I’m curious if you have plans to expand this to other sports, outside of football.

I have tried the free app a few times and have used the trouble shooting tips from the help page, but the app does not save my custom league settings. Also, it shows often shows other user’s email addresses in the “Signed in as:” box at the top of the page. Is this the normal operation of the free app? Why is it showing other user’s email addresses? Does it only store custom league settings in the paid version?

Will paid subscribers get priority access over no-payers during peak usage times? I love your auction app, but it just doesn’t update fast enough to survive a draft for me. But I would be willing to pay if I knew that the performance would not die during peak usage times.

Can someone answer why after creating a profile, paying for a subscription, that my account still says free account? Not all of the features such as accuracy, save custom settings, etc., are not accessible. Again, I signed up and paid for a subscription and verified the 4.99 deduction from my account.
Thank you!

I’m really trying to figure out the DFS aspect of the app, but I’m not just figuring it out. Is there a walk-through on how to create a lineup for FanDuel? I can’t even find the place to pull FanDuel prices so they reflect on the players. I’m not sure if there is a simpler way to do this or if there is some documentation as to how to setup teams using your app.

Is there an email address I can send screenshots to of what I’m doing? Values for players are not pulling in. Trying it on both Edge and Chrome. Do we need to adjust actual price for each player we pick? Also, under general settings, I can’t seem to pick week 1 for the season. Is that available yet? Sorry for the numerous questions, just trying to maximize my time and effort with the tool.

The “apps” page doesn’t load. It is blank. Yes, I am not blocking popups. I tried Chrome and IE. No good. Tried from home and on wireless network. Tried everything. Blank page every time. Figured you needed to sign up, but you sign up FROM the apps page that doesn’t load.

I’m very excited about your auction optimizer tool! However, I’m trying to account for other teams’ keepers and I can’t seem to figure out how to populate the “Other Players Drafted” table let alone apply them to certain teams. Any help would be appreciated!

Stoked about FFA Insider, you guys definitely deserve a little taste of my championship winnings! I have a question though, have you all thought about developing a weekly lineup optimizer for season long leagues? Something you could save your roster in and could use to adjust starters based on projections and match-up. Thanks!

Hoping to get FanDuel projections for Week 1 soon. Would like to take advantage of the long weekend to prep for next weekend. At this point, it only appears DraftKings, FantasyScore, and Yahoo DFS are available.

Also, when using the Lineup Analyzer, using DraftKings scoring, I click on the “Select Column” button. In the menu, I attempt to click on the last two buttons (Sleeper and Pts/$), but they do not respond. Having the Pts/$ available would be huge!

Hey guys, great site. Just subscribed as an insider. I’m using my own optimization algorithm for DFS, but I’d love to export your Lineup Optimizer data for a given week into a CSV that has the Draft Kings/FanDuel specific scores and salaries. My optimizer would then use this data. How can I do this?

I see how I can export on the projections site, but it doesn’t seem like I can export the DK and FD specific scores and salaries out of that spreadsheet. Conversely, if I go to the lineup optimizer, all of the data appears to be there and used by your optimizer, but I cannot export it.

So my question is, how can I export the Lineup Optimizer raw data into a csv? Many thanks and keep up the great work. Apologies if this question has been asked before – if so I missed it.

Hey Val – To follow up – When I go to the “Projections” tab of the app, and I go to “League Settings” up top, the only scoring settings that are available are then following: FFAnalytics, ESPN, Half PPR, MFL Draft, NFL, PPR, and Yahoo. These persist even if I have the lineups set to week 2 (not season). I can get the option for Draft Kings/Fan Duel league settings only in the Lineup Optimizer, which does not appear to have a raw csv export. Can you tell me what I’m doing wrong?

I keep getting a strange error when trying to select draftkings lineup. Michael Thomas appears twice.
Also, I still cannot figure out what the purpose of clicking “pick” is supposed to do.
Or, what the “other players drafted” means or is supposed to do.
Are there some better instructions as to how to use the lineup optimizer?
I used this with great success last year, and this year, none of it makes any sense.

Last week, I changed the payment info on my FFA Insider subscription, and haven’t been able to access any of the apps since. I get an “Ajax error” every time before it disconnects from the server. Any help is appreciated. Thanks!

For the week 8 projections, I am currently unable to download the projections tables. When i move my cursor over the blue “download” button, I get a red circle indicating that I can’t download. Note that I am an FFA insider.